Toni Servillo

"I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope."

"The most important thing I discovered after turning 65 is, that I can't waste any more time doing things that I don't want to do."

Jeb: "What job do you do?"
Orietta: "I'm rich."
Jeb: "Great job."

"This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life, hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah... it's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise, silence and sentiment, emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. And I don't deal with what lies beyond. Therefore... let this novel begin. After all... it's just a trick. Yes, it's just a trick."

"We're all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little... don't you agree?"

"The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere."

Santa: "Do you know why I only eat roots?"
Jep: "No, why?"
Santa: "Because roots are important."

"When I came to Rome at the age of 26, I fell pretty swiftly into what might be defined as the whirl of the high life, but I didn't just want to live the high life, I wanted to be the king of the high life. I didn't just want to attend parties, I wanted the power to make them fail."